Blizzard Presents the Last Bastion

Blizzard showed an amazing animated Overwatch short called “The Last Bastion at Gamescom. Overwatch Project Director Ben Dai says Bastion, “an artificial intelligence programmed to do one thing, and one thing only—to fight—comes face-to-face with a choice to alter his destiny” in the short. 

The Last Bastion” follows the forgotten battle automaton, Bastion, as it unexpectedly reactivates after laying dormant in the wilderness for over a decade. Fascinated by its unfamiliar surroundings, the curious omnic begins to investigate, but quickly discovers its core combat programming may have a different directive…